jhancock/yii2-version-assetmgr

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Yii2 asset manager that hashes based on application version instead of mtime. Useful for load balanced sites.

1.0.0 2014-08-14 04:28 UTC

Requires

• yiisoft/yii2: *

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: 4.1.*

BSD-3-Clause

• Jason Hancock

• assetmanager
• yii2

README

A drop in replacement AssetManager for the Yii2 framework. Yii's default AssetManager hashes assets based on path + Yii version + file modification time, but if your website is being served behind a load balancer from multiple web servers and the file mtimes are different, this could lead to serving assets from different paths.

To combat this, instead the VersionAssetManager hashes path + Yii version + application version. Application version is read from the version key of the params array from the configuration file:

'params' => [
    'version' => '1.0.0'
],

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist jhancock/yii2-version-assetmgr "*"

or add

"jhancock/yii2-version-assetmgr": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Configuration

Configure your application to use the VersionAssetManager by adding the following component configuration:

'assetManager' => [
    'class' => 'jhancock\VersionAssetMgr\VersionAssetManager',
],

You should then set a version parameter in the params array when you publish your application.

In the development environment, either omit setting the version key in the config, set it to Development, or omit it altogether and it will default to Development. When the version is Development, we instead hash path + Yii version + time() to guarantee that we always bust cache in the development environment. This means that every pageload will create new folders under your assets directory and copy lots of files. It is therefore recommended that you turn on symlinking by setting linkAssets to true under the assetManager component configuration like so:

'assetManager' => [
    'class' => 'jhancock\VersionAssetMgr\VersionAssetManager',
    'linkAssets' => true,
],